Activity 1.2.6 Why do schools choose to use ICT? (Optional)

Refer to Section 1.2 of the document you downloaded in Activity 1.2.5, Chapter 1: Setting the Context, which summarises the reasons why the survey schools chose to use ICT.
Categorise your answers to Activity 1.2.4 Q3, using this analysis, to record in your Course Journal your reasons for using or not using ICT as 'external', 'internal' or 'educational'.

Add to this list any other possible reason that you think of, if this process suggests other possible reasons for using ICT that would apply to your own context.

Should

a. Wider reach and experience results delivery (external/internal)
b. ICT abilities development (internal/educational)
c. Flexibility in learning strategies (when considering them as an option or alternative for vision expansion) (external/internal/ educational)

Should not

a. If teachers or facilitators are not aware that technologies should help learning and teaching goals (internal/educational)
b. If accessibility will be a matter of difficulties among students (internal)
c. If the resulting products generated collaboratively will not be shared outside the classroom (internal)

Refrences used  for this activity

Extract from Kalaš, I., Laval, E., Laurillard, D., Lim, C.P., Meyer, F., Musgrave, S., Senteni,  A., Tokareva, N., Turcsányi-Szabó, M. (2014). ICT in Primary Education: Volume 2 Policy, Practices, and Recommendations. Moscow, Russian Federation: UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education.

Extract from Jenkins, H., Purushotma, R., Weigel, M., Clinton, K., & Robinson, A. J. (2009). Confronting the challenges of participatory culture. Retrieved from http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/free_download/9780262513623_Confronting_the_Challenges.pdf